Gym Culture Quotes

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

I'm constantly out of my mind trying to stay in shape.

The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.

I lift pretty heavy for my body weight, and I don't do any of that girly stuff like cardio or any light weights. I go really heavy, and that intimidates some guys. I enjoy that.

That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.

I try to work out, but a lot of hotels don't have gyms anymore, so I always try to find a local gym where there's not a ton of 'roid-heads, 'cause I can't stand them. It's tough.

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

After school let out around 2:30, I'd go straight to the gym to be the first person there, even though it didn't open until about 4:30. I was the littlest one and I was good, so they took me serious.

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

Yes, this is our job, but when we're having rough days and when we're going through tough times, we can all come to the gym and come to the locker room and let everything out.

I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!

I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.

Motivating yourself, I think having big strong legs, that's pretty cool. Having a big VMOs [the teardrop-shaped muscle above your knee] is always nice. But, the thing is, when you see guys who are clearly gym junkies who only do bicep curls all day every day, and you see them walking down the street ...'Mate, what about the legs?'.

What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.

Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

In the summertime you'll find me back home in Atlanta, in the gym playing against whoever walks in that day.

All I do is just live in the gym.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

I don't want to be the hardest working guy in the gym.

I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?

I don't like going into a clean gym. A gym is supposed to stink.

In the gym, people's enthusiasm tends to get the best of them. They realize this is their opportunity to say hello or that they love my work... It doesn't matter how profusely you're sweating.

I always have my group of friends at the gym. We used to go hang out somewhere before. Now we're just hanging out at the gym. We have sparring parties where everyone beats each other up, but then we all eat my dad's cooking, and I hire a massage therapist, so everyone is just kicking back and having a good time. I just keep the environment great.